People from all walks of life are nervously carrying out search work, just to find evidence of my wife's murder before midnight, but unfortunately with little effect.

Moeka Wakuo took my wife's confession to the forensic doctor to compare, and the knife marks and some subtle marks on the victim's bones were consistent with my wife's confession, but this did not help much in the conviction.

After returning from a visit led by Setore, through interviews with Sakura Gas Company and some migrant workers at the construction site, no one had much impression of my wife's good dance, and there were no eyewitnesses who could testify in court.

Okuji went to the household registration police to check the addresses of old residents near Sakata Town, and through visits, no eyewitnesses were found.

In the file investigating the disappearance of Nanae Yamamoto, no bloodstains, murder weapons or suspect footprints were found, and there were no eyewitness records.

Kitamura Yuki personally led a team to escort my wife, Zenmai, who took the initiative to cooperate with the confession, to Sakata-cho, and this time he was still a gentleman in his promise to Kamio Kaede, and he did not regret the confession, and admitted to the police that he had followed the victim Yamamoto Nanae on the night of July 20, Heisei 16 and plotted against him.

After two hours of humiliating and tortured by Nanae Yamamoto in a remote location, my wife, Zenmai, killed Nanae Yamamoto and threw her body into a pit that had been dug in advance.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that the crime occurred for many years and the terrain near the pit where the bones were buried has changed greatly, after my wife Zenmai was taken to Sakata-cho, it was impossible to identify the place where Nanae Yamamoto was captured and the place where he was killed, and the first scene could not be confirmed.

With the return of one team after another team of criminal police, Kamio Kaede's mood became more and more heavy, so far, except for the confession of my wife Shanmai, the police still have no substantial evidence.

Okuji looked unwilling, and after looking at my wife Shanmai, who was escorted back by the Kitamura Police Department, he stomped his feet and beckoned the people to set off again, "I don't believe it, and I can't cure his crime!" ”

Looking at the back of Okuji leaving, my wife Shanwu pursed her lips, raised her handcuffed fingers slightly, pointed to the clock on the wall and said, "Officer, time is running out." ”

"You can't run away, don't worry." Kamio Kaede glared at him.

My wife Shanwu grinned, "Then I'll wait and see." ”

The criminal police took him away, took two steps, and was stopped by a delicate figure, and Natsuki Koda stood in front of my wife Zenmai with a look of resentment.

"Did you kill my mother?"

Kamio Kaede had never seen my wife Zenmai show such a flustered expression, and he showed a hint of nervousness and fear to the daughter of the victim in front of him.

The detective took him into the detention cell, and Rei Seto stepped forward and took Natsuki Koda to the side to comfort him.

Kamio Kaede sighed deeply, picked up the phone again, and didn't care what time it was on the other side of the ocean, and directly dialed Koda Fumi's phone number.

Unexpectedly, this time, Koda's phone was successfully connected.

According to the time difference, it should be three or four o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles, but judging from the tone of Koda's voice, it seems that he is very awake, and he has not slept all night.

"Mr. Koda, I have good news for you, my wife Zenmai was caught, he also confessed to his crime, and the police successfully obtained his confession and identification of the photos of the body dumping scene."

There was a sad sigh on the other end of the phone, and Koda seemed to choke.

Kamio Kaede said: "But now the police have no evidence that can directly confirm Koda's crime, that is, even if Koda-wen voluntarily pleads guilty, the police cannot transfer the case to the prosecutor's office for prosecution......

You used to work in the prosecutor's office, so you should understand the importance of physical witnesses in the conviction, right? If it weren't for this, even if Koda pleaded guilty, the court would have given a light sentence or even acquitted......"

Koda said in a hoarse voice: "I know ......"

Kamio Kaede paused for a moment, considered his words, and suggested: "Mr. Koda, I sincerely hope that you, as an eyewitness to the murder of Nanae Yamamoto, can provide testimony and identify the murderer. ”

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and Koda Wen did not reply for a long time.

He sighed for a long time, but finally, he replied in a deflated whisper, "I'm sorry, Officer Kamio, I ...... I'm afraid I can't testify that I have a new marriage, a new life, and I don't want to get into the whirlpool of hatred again, I've been in a mess for ten years, and I don't want to go back to the past. ”

When Kamio Kaede heard this, he suddenly became anxious, and suppressed his anger to do his ideological work, "Mr. Koda, I understand your concerns, but my wife Zenmai has already put her own affairs aside, and she is almost on the verge of killing Yamamoto Nanae......

After all, she was your ex-wife, a husband and wife for a hundred days, do you want her to die forever?

Mr. Koda, according to the confession of my wife Zenmai, he was about to bury someone when he was about to bury someone after torturing Nanae Yamamoto that night, when he was bumped into by you who came from home. Although the light was not very good in the middle of the night, you still saw each other's faces, and he fled the scene in a hurry......

And he didn't have time to bury Nanae Yamamoto's body at all, it was you who buried his wife's body after he fled. ”

Kamio Kaede paused and said, "I'm not easy to define your behavior...... This is illegal from the legal point of view of the country. But I understand that you were also out of helplessness at that time, what man did not want to call the police to catch the criminal and let him accept the severe punishment of the law after witnessing his wife being tortured to death?

But at that time, for the sake of your daughter, you could only bury your wife in pain and pray for her forgiveness and forgiveness......

Mr. Koda, I understand you, and I can also use your personality, and even the recording of this call to assure you, with my life as a police officer, that as long as you are willing to give testimony and identify my wife Zenmai as the murderer of Nanae Yamamoto, I will definitely ensure that you return home unscathed!

There are less than 10 hours left until 0:00 on July 21st, and we can contact Interpol to provide you with a special plane, and if it goes well, you can get to Tokyo before midnight, and you will have time to identify!

As long as you want to come, the Tokyo police can even escort my wife Zenmai directly to the airport, and you can identify yourself as soon as you get off the plane, turn around and take the plane to leave Tokyo and return to Los Angeles without even getting off the gangway. ”

Koda's breathing became more and more rapid, and he seemed to be seriously considering the matter.

Kamio Kaede is also anxiously waiting, there is not much time left now, if Koda doesn't think about it again, even if he figures it out later, when he contacts Interpol to arrange a special plane, it will be too late to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo!

"Mr. Koda, help, please, everyone is waiting to see this demonic subjugation, and your wife has been waiting for 15 years, please......"

Finally, on the other end of the phone, Koda Fumi sighed deeply, and a hoarse voice came from the phone, "I'm sorry, Officer Kamio." ”

The phone was hung up by a beep.

"!"

Kamio Kaede clenched the phone and scolded angrily, "Are you a man, Nanae Yamamoto married you back then, you were really blind, you are not worthy of being a man, you are not worthy of being a husband!" ”

The angry roar drew the attention of the entire corridor, Kamio Kaede stopped talking, smiled bitterly, and sat on the bench with an angry heaving chest, hiding his face with his hands in silence.

After a while, a burst of lavender fragrance lingered in his nose, and Kaede Kaede looked up and found that it was Natsuki Koda, and the girl was standing there a little cramped and uneasy with a glass of water.

"Thank you." Kamio Kaede took the water and poured it down.

"Is it the father?" The girl said cautiously, "Was it my father who called just now?" ”

Kamio Kaede nodded silently.

Koda Natsuki sat down beside him and whispered, "My mother was not in good health and couldn't have children, so my father accompanied her to the welfare home to adopt me.

At that time, my father loved my mother very much, and our family of three was very happy, and my father never disliked me for being adopted, treating me as his own, and even begging people to borrow money every day for my bone marrow transplant......

It wasn't until after my mother disappeared that my father raised the money for the surgery and took me to Los Angeles for surgery.

For the first 10 years, my father was sad with tears every day, and then he met his current aunt, and since they got married and had children of their own, my father is no longer sad, and he should have a new life of his own, instead of being immersed in the past like me.

But I still believe that deep down in my father's heart, I still think about my mother, and he has never been a cold-blooded and ruthless person......"

"But now, your father is unwilling to testify in court, and without his testimony, the real murderer of your mother back then is likely to escape the punishment of the law......

Kamio Kaede sighed, and continued, "Everyone has a last resort, and I also believe that your father once loved your mother very much, but ...... People change. When I think that such a long effort is about to go to waste, I am always unwilling, and you are not reconciled, aren't you? ”